Back in 2002 Ruy Teixeira and John Judis wrote “The Emerging Democrat Majority.” They posited that since minorities (at that time) predominantly voted Democrat, and since minority populations were growing, the Democrats would have a bright electoral future. His book became the Holy Grail for Democrats and elicited smiles among radicals, with years of chanting “demographics is destiny” — even though Ruy and John never said anything about the Democratic Party’s so called “destiny.”
But the notion of the Democrat Party’s destiny caught on, and the radicals took it as their license to indulge in all of their social justice (i.e., communist) fantasies. They threw the borders open to flood the country with their preferred demographic, and started the work of tearing down everything the immigrants were coming here for – to make room for their socialist paradise. Why not? According to Ruy and John, the future was theirs.
Ruy is a smart guy and he knows the Dems have been misinterpreting his book. He has spent the last several years writing articles imploring them to understand that where voters are concerned, there is no such thing as destiny. Voter opinions matter. In Ruy’s most recent article “It’s Official! The Democrats Have a Nonwhite Voter Problem” he points out that demographics would have worked to the Democrat Party’s advantage – if all else remained equal. But all else has not remained equal.
Ruy points out that the Dems have been losing ground with minorities for years. With each successive election, the party’s margin of victory with minorities has narrowed. While the Dems continue to win a majority of minority votes, their margin of victory with all minority groups is shrinking at an alarming rate. It is not inconceivable that they will eventually lose the minority vote to the Republicans, if the issue remains unaddressed – and the Dems are not addressing it.
Ruy correctly points out that the problem is a gap between minority voter preferences, and the Democrat party agenda. He states:
“But voter preferences do not generally remain the same. Therein lies the reason why, in some cases, rising diversity has not produced the dividends for Democrats that many activists and advocates anticipated”
Voter preferences change, and the Dems have lost touch with the wishes of their base.
Ruy points to polling to illustrate that the Dems are losing ground on the issues of the economy, family finances, environmentalism, personal freedom, social issues, and even racism.
In his article, he pleads for the Democrats to reach out to minority voters, engage them in dialog, and understand their preferences.
Ruy is right about what is happening – a disconnect between voter preferences and the party platform. But I disagree with him on why there is a disconnect. The growing gap between the Democrats and their minority voters isn’t an issue of outreach, dialog, and understanding. It is an issue of ideology.
The are two sides involved in any disagreement. Ruy assumes that the gap is due to changing voter preferences. He fails to note in his article that the gap may have been created by the changing Democrat party ideology rather than the changing preferences of minority voters. Perhaps there’s a growing gulf because the party moved left, not because their voters moved right. Maybe Ronald Reagan wasn’t the last Democrat who felt the party had left him.
The Democrats used to be anti-communist. Now they are anti-capitalist. The emerging leaders in the party openly advocate for socialism – and have some very communist behaviors thrown in for good measure. Did minority voters suddenly come to disfavor private property and personal opportunity? Or has the Democrat party changed?
The Democrats used to be fierce defenders of free speech. Now they promote censoring any speech they disagree with and cancellation of anyone who argues against their approved narrative. They have even begun labeling anti-government speech as forms of violence worthy of prosecution. Why would they presume that minority voters would favor the silencing of their speech – just as it was silenced before they found freedom in America?
Barack Obama used to be against gay marriage. Now the Democrats endorse the persecution of anyone expressing religious objections to gay marriage. Here’s a news flash: it’s not because minorities have gotten more religious. Like every other race, some of them have always been religious followers.
The Dems used to be pro-family. Now the party encourages schools to groom children, and prosecutes parents for defending their children at school board meetings. They even threaten to remove children from parents who disagree with the party’s approved narrative on transgenderism. Minority parents haven’t suddenly become more protective of their children, the Democrat party has become more of a threat to children.
Democrats used to be sane on the issue of abortion. Bill Clinton wanted abortions to be safe, legal, and rare. Now Democrats advocate for abortions to be commonplace. They want women to have the “right” to terminate their young up to the minute of birth. As a state legislator, Barack Obama even voted for it to be legal to allow babies born alive during a failed abortion, to be allowed to die without care. Voters (minority and otherwise) have always considered that negligent homicide. The Democrat party calls it reproductive healthcare.
The Democrats used to be pro law and order. In post-Civil War America, equal application of the law was the only protection people of color had from evil men with hateful hearts. Now the Democrats are fully in favor of using lawfare to achieve their ideological objectives. Nonwhite voters can see that when law enforcement becomes a tool of political enforcement, they could its next target.
The Democrats used to be the party of the working man. Well, they still are – as long as the working men are in communist China. They treat American workers like racist, uneducated rubes, who refuse to stay out of sight in fly-over country.
The Democrats have become the anti-family, anti-freedom, anti-hard work, anti-law and order, and anti-religion party. They have become everything America is not, and they’re surprised that voters (minority and otherwise) are starting to see it.
For a Latino voter who takes his family to church on Sundays and works hard to raise a happy and prosperous family, have his preferences changed? Or was it the party he used to vote for that changed?
I have a question for Ruy. Is the issue that the Democrats have failed to understand changing voter preferences, or is it that the radicals who have infected the party don’t care about those preferences?
Ruy predicts that as the loss of minority votes becomes obvious, it will trigger a party reexamination of their positions. I beg to differ. If the party cared about voter preferences: it would debate rather than censor, inform rather than propagandize, and win election rather than cheat. The reality is that the Democrat party is uninterested in voter preferences. It wants only citizen obedience.
Author Bio: John Green is a political refugee from Minnesota, now residing in Idaho. He has written for American Thinker, and American Free News Network. He can be followed on Facebook or reached at greenjeg@gmail.com.
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